The newest guard at a security firm is
persuaded by his colleagues to steal an armored truck containing over
$40 million, but the heist goes awry.

— Not reviewed

Chapel Hills 15, Cinemark 16, Hollywood
Interquest, Tinseltown

The Blind Side (PG-13)

The Blind Side takes on the real-life
underdog-makes-good story of Michael Oher, currently a first-year left
tackle for the Baltimore Ravens. It's not unimpressive because it's a
"feel-good" story, but because it's simply a lazy piece of
movie-making. — Scott Renshaw

If I didn't know better, I'd have guessed
that The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day was meant to be some
sort of attempt at parody. It's an orgy of sexualized violence that's
both riotously awful and simultaneously vile with no point except to
give itself something to jerk off to. — MaryAnn
Johanson

Chapel Hills 15, Kimball's Peak Three,
Tinseltown

The Box (PG-13)

A couple discovers a box that will make them
rich upon opening it, but will also mean the death of a person they do
not know. — Not reviewed

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*Brothers (R)

A soldier is lost in Afghanistan and
presumed dead. His family mourns him, then has to readjust when he is
found alive. This powerful film represents the stress fractures pulling
apart many military families. — MaryAnn Johanson

Until she meets David, a man almost twice
her age, 16-year-old Jenny is well-behaved and studious, gifted on the
cello and aiming to study literature at Oxford. Ultimately, An
Education feels more mature than most coming-of-age movies, and
will buoy anyone who remembers taking that first peek into life beyond
parents and textbooks. — Tricia Olszewski

Kimball's Peak Three

Everybody's Fine (PG-13)

Everybody's Fine is exactly the kind
of role that Robert De Niro doesn't need right now, one so low-key that
he doesn't seem to know how to play it. De Niro plays a widowed retiree
looking forward to a holiday visit from his grown children. Instead,
they each call to bail out. — Scott Renshaw

Chapel Hills 15, Cinemark 16, Hollywood
Interquest, Tinseltown

*Fantastic Mr. Fox (PG)

Wes Anderson directs this stop-motion
animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1970 children's novel. It's a
surprisingly adult-ish film featuring George Clooney voicing the title
role and Meryl Streep as his no-less-fantastic wife. — Jeff
Sneider

Kimball's Peak Three, Tinseltown

The Fourth Kind (PG-13)

This "fact-based" film tells the tale of an
Alaskan town whose residents have been disappearing in unexplained
circumstances and alien encounters are suspected. — Not
reviewed

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G-Force (PG)

A team of guinea pigs, trained as high-tech
spies through a secret government program battle to save the planet.
— Not reviewed

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*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(PG)

Half-Blood Prince is far less dense
with magical action than its predecessors, and perhaps that makes it
feel like a stage-setter for the finale that will be Deathly
Hallows. Yet it's so rich with characterization that it scarcely
matters. — Scott Renshaw

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (PG)

This time out, Manny the mammoth (voiced by
Ray Romano) is about to be a dad, but complications ensue. —
MaryAnn Johanson

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The Invention of Lying (PG-13)

In this romantic comedy's alternate reality,
even the idea of a lie doesn't exist, until a man (Ricky Gervais)
discovers and begins to use the ability to his benefit. — Not
reviewed

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*Julie & Julia (PG-13)

Meryl Streep is delightful as cooking legend
Julia Child. Endearing Amy Adams plays her counterpart Julie Powell, a
woman who decides to launch a blog chronicling her preparation of every
recipe from Julia's cookbook Mastering the Art of French
Cooking. — Scott Renshaw

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Ninja Assassin (R)

A man who was taken from the streets as a
youth and raised to be a killer by a secret clan, frees himself after
the murder of his friend, and waits for a chance for revenge.
— Not reviewed

Robin Williams and John Travolta star as
middle-aged bachelors who unexpectedly find themselves in charge of
6-year-old twins while in the midst of the most important business deal
of their careers. — Not reviewed

Shorts is a zippy, slapsticky romp
about a suburban town gone bonkers when a wish-granting,
rainbow-colored rock falls out of the sky. — Jonathan
Kiefer

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The Stepfather (PG-13)

When a student returns home from military
school and meets his mother's new boyfriend, he soon suspects the man
may be hiding a dangerous past. — Not reviewed

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Surrogates (PG-13)

In a future world where people stay inside
while their surrogate robots interact for them, Bruce Willis plays a
cop who must emerge to investigate a string of killings. — Not
reviewed

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Transylmania (R)

In this horror spoof, a handful of college
students travel to Romania to study, and discover the nightlife
includes not only partying, but vampires. — Not
reviewed

Carmike 10, Chapel Hills 15

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (PG-13)

In this second installment based on the
books by Stephenie Meyer, Edward, a vampire, and his human girlfriend
Bella Swan mope around a lot. Two hours of pretty teenagers —
including Bella's werewolf friend, Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), who
doesn't like vampires but does like Bella — making moon eyes at
one another in this love triangle is an hour-forty-five too much.
— MaryAnn Johanson

Elderly curmudgeon Carl (Edward Asner)
launches his house into the air with a massive cascade of balloons and
a plan to head to a South American jungle. —Scott
Renshaw

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*Zombieland (R)

The flesh-eating undead are not,
understandably, every movie-goer's taste. But this time, skipping the
latest zombie flick will mean missing what may be the funniest American
comedy of 2009. — Scott Renshaw